Antisemitic attitudes are higher among British Muslims than the general population.
Evidence
The most recent and extensive survey of antisemitism in Britain found that most Muslims do not respond positively to antisemitic statements but, at the same time, antisemitism ‘is consistently higher among the Muslim population of Great Britain than among the population in general’ (Staetsky 2017: 6, 56). — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 710
Categorization
- QUESTION: Worth chasing: what explains this gap — and how does it complicate a purely structural/anti-racist account of Islamophobia when Islamophobia and antisemitism coexist within one community?
- SHARE: A precise finding a colleague working on intergroup prejudice in the UK would want to know.
Related
- One in four Britons expressed hostility toward Muslims in Pew surveys. (similarity 0.83)
- Islamophobia is one of several challenges British Muslims confront. (similarity 0.81)
- Suspicion of Britain’s Muslims predates modern biological racism (similarity 0.80)
- Jewish hesitation toward Muslims stems from media stereotyping plus remembered antisemitism (similarity 0.80)
- Anti-Islamic and anti-Muslim attitudes are distinct but overlapping targets of prejudice (similarity 0.80)
- Antisemitism and Islamophobia share tropes but remain structurally distinct racisms (similarity 0.79)
- Stereotyping circuits amplify distrust between British Jews and Muslims bidirectionally (similarity 0.79)
- Hostility to British Muslims predates modern biological racism and parallels antisemitism (similarity 0.79)
- British Jews and Muslims each form internally diverse, non-monolithic communities. (similarity 0.79)
- British Muslims hold hyphenated dual identities more patriotic than white Britons. (similarity 0.79)
- The ethnic makeup of Muslims varies widely by region in England. (similarity 0.79)
- Persecution-driven assimilation explains lower present-day antisemitism than Islamophobia (similarity 0.79)
- Combating Islamophobia requires seeing it as interlaced with xenophobia and classism. (similarity 0.78)
- Anti-Muslim bias incidents kept breaking records through 2017 (similarity 0.78)
- Muslims today form far larger Western European minorities than Jews ever did. (similarity 0.78)